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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
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PowerPoint has had a 'present in Teams' button, which shows you the presenter display and everyone else the slides, for at least five years. It renders the slides on each client, so works with accessibility, supports zooming, and so on. It is big and right next to the share button.

Yet, even when I was at Microsoft, most people shared PowerPoint presentations by sharing the window. A lot don't even put it in present mode, so you're also seeing a load of UI around the slides.

I still can't quite get over this. For once, some people at MS actually did a good thing and built a really discoverable UI around it (it's a huge button! It's right there!). And still most people don't use it.
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buherator · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqncxka2nmkqkndk4wkuf3tz3l39z9m8xax3aen3h8tvudwgjmf5mq4uv2v2 I think part of the problem is few trust that this level of integration between Office and Teams will work, considering the usual issues of each of these components. I'd be esp. concerne...
kasperd · 2w
Around 10 years ago I filed a feature request for such an integration to be added between Google Slides and Google Hangouts (or whatever Google Meet was called at the time, I have lost track of all the names it has had throughout the years). I don’t know if any tool had such an integration at the...
Fritz Adalis · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqncxka2nmkqkndk4wkuf3tz3l39z9m8xax3aen3h8tvudwgjmf5mq4uv2v2 "I don't want people looking ahead at the other slides"